CORNER FOR BUSY BEES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 209, 3 September 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)

CORNER FOR BUSY BEES.

SURPRISE GIFT FOR MOTHER. MAKE THIS DAINTY APRON. (Conducted by TINKERBELL.) Dear Girls, — It is nice just occasionally to give a gift to mother, don't you think, even though it is not her birthday? It is such a delightful surprise. So this week we are going to make an apron. It is so pretty and so very cheap, and mother, ' I know, will love it. To make it you will need 2J yard* of 15-inch Russian crash or linen, some coloured braid for the binding, and any odds and ends of coloured wools you can find for the embroidered irimrrAng on the pocket. First cut off the odd quarter of a yard—this i« to make the pocket. Now cut the remaining two yards in half up the centre so. that you have two

yard-long pieces. Cut one of the pieces in half again and lay these two pieces one each side of the yard-long bit—the diagram explains this clearly. Sew the pieces to the long main part of the apron, one each side, and go over the joins with back-stitching in wool to match the colour of the binding you are going to use. Take the -piece for the pocket— it will be fifteen inches wide and nine inches deep-—and draw a little design, like the. one shown in diagram A in the .centre. Work the flowers in buttonhole stitch, back-stitch and lazy daisy stitch, making them all very attractive and gay, and giving some of them black centres, other* yellow, or otauge. Work the tree trunk in brown satin stitch and add green lazy daisy leaves here and there amidst the flowers. Press the embroidery well under a damp cloth, bind the top edge cf the pocket with braid, and stitch it firmly to the {rant of the apron. Bind all the apron edges with the braid and sew a loop to the top of the bib part, so that it can be slipped over the wearer's head. Then, with braid string* to tie round the waist, the apron U finished. And you will be so pleased with it, I know. It is dainty and very serviceable, and should cost you no more than about 1/6.